Ego
Ego of the Week: Meredith Bress
Meredith Bress, this year’s VP of Recruitment, handles everything rush–related, from registration to bid cards.
Top 5 Ways to Stay Warm
5. Avoid the wind tunnel at all costs, but if you can’t, walk behind someone tall… humans make great windbreakers. 4.
Looks on Locust: 1.20.11
We'll be honest, Street stopped a lot of homeless people and 70–year–old WASPs in sick furry get–ups before we stumbled upon these bundled–up babes. Added bonus: they're actually enrolled here
Ego of the Week: Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman, best known for smooth talking and his future plans to join the Israeli Defense Forces, chats about his indiscretions (under the Button ... or so he claims) and freshman shenanigans.
Ego Of The Week: John Pennypacker
Joke Issue: John Pennypacker, captain of the football team, loves underground lairs and dance floor spotlights.
How To Depression–Proof Your Wardrobe
Joke Issue: In these times, it takes a little creativity to spice up your wardrobe — food stamps don’t apply to boutique shopping.
Life In A Hooverville: A Reflection
Joke Issue: By Tom Joad Four months ago when my family lost our house, we moved in with cousins and patiently awaited the day when we would move back home to indoor heating.
Out Of Theme
From toga parties to underwater raves, Penn loves a good theme party. And since this is the land of extremes, the more outrageous the better.
Ego(s) Of The Week: Tyler Bernadini and Jack Eggleston
The cutest bromance on campus, Jack Eggleston and Tyler Bernadini, have mastered running the basketball team.
Review: Thefeast.com
Take a seat and indulge in the latest of “where to go” websites: thefeast.com. The premise of the site is to “take you to the best places to eat, shop and play in the city.” Luckily for us, Philadelphia is one of the cities on The Feast’s radar.
Ego Of The Week: Adie Remiker
Street: As chair of Strictly Funk, what exactly do you do? Adie Remiker: Delegate all responsibility to others and let them work their magic. Street: What is your signature dance move? A.R.: Hair Flip… with a body roll… end with a boom–ka. Street: Are you strictly anything else? A.R.: Strictly way too old to be living in the quad. Street: What’s the most underrated thing at Penn?
Ego Of The Week: BMOC 2010
The big men on Penn's campus took a break out of their grueling reahearsals for BMOC — AXO's annual philanthropy event — to let us in on some backstage dirt.
Books On Locust
Colder days are luring Penn students to curl up with a nice book. Ego caught up with people on campus to get some traditional recommendations for your reading pleasure. OTHELLO "Basically the first book ever to be written about racial differences.
Ego Of The Week: Ali Huberlie and Matt Amalfitano
Meet Ali Huberlie and Matt Amalfitano, the former child model and cartoon look–alike who run shit in student government, respectively.
Underground Clubbin' : Penn Sailing Club
With so much going on, it is sometimes hard to find some of Penn’s more abstract offerings. This week, we suggest getting your country club on and taking up a new sport along the way. The Penn Sailing Team provides novices and professionals alike the unique opportunity to partake in an age–old collegiate tradition.
Locust Lexicon: FOMO
Once again, Ego is here to expand your Ivy League vocabulary. After a weekend of late night halloween party–hopping and enough Facebook uploads to to make you scream, we’ve got just the term. FOMO (noun) [pronounced fo–moe] A term referring to the tearjerking emotion that comes with the fear of not being included in a specific night, event or photo.
A (Not So) Hidden Gem On Campus
“What the hell is this building?” It’s safe to say that this thought, or a variation thereof, pops into the minds of many Penn students the first time they notice the pale stone structure on the southeast corner of the intersection of 40th and Walnut streets.
Ego Of The Week: Sarah Stoecker
Elmo’s Sarah Stoecker is valiantly trying to start an a cappella group, but this improver has little time to belt the notes between brown–nosing the Cinema department, acting spontaneously and yelling about vaginas.
